Images of Power and the Power of Images
Title | Images of Power and the Power of Images PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Kapferer |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2012-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 085745515X |
Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives—anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural—the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling traveling exhibition, and an art fair in London; we explore the meaning of walls in Jerusalem, a Zen garden in Japan, and religious themes in Europe and India. Literally and figuratively, these situations influence the ways in which ordinary people interpret their everyday worlds. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), the authors reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context.
Images of Power
Title | Images of Power PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Andermann |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781845452124 |
In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).
Images of State Power
Title | Images of State Power PDF eBook |
Author | P. N. Abinales |
Publisher | University of Philippines Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Church and state |
ISBN |
The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus
Title | The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Zanker |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780472081240 |
Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar
Plato and the Power of Images
Title | Plato and the Power of Images PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004345019 |
Plato is well known both for the harsh condemnations of images and image-making poets that appear in his dialogues and for the vivid and intense imagery that he himself uses in his matchless prose. Through their resemblance to true reality, images have the power to move their viewers to action and to change themselves, but because of their distance from true reality, that power always remains problematic. Two recurrent problems addressed here are how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents. Plato and the Power of Images comprises twelve chapters on the ways Plato has used images, and the ways we could, or should, understand their status as images.
The Optic of the State
Title | The Optic of the State PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Andermann |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2007-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822973308 |
The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. As Jens Andermann reveals, the foundational visions of national heritage, territory, and social and ethnic composition were conceived and implemented, but also disputed and contested, in a complex interplay between government, cultural, and scientific institutions and actors, as a means of propagating political agendas and power throughout the emerging states.The purpose of these imaginaries was to vindicate the political upheavals of the recent past and secure the viability of the newly independent states through a sense of historic destiny and inevitable evolution. The careful presentation of artifacts and spectacles was also aimed abroad in order to win the favor of European imperial powers and thereby acquire a competitive place in the nascent global economy of the late nineteenth century.The Optic of the State offers a fascinating critique of the visual aspects of national mythology. It exposes how scientific and cultural institutions inscribed the state-form in time and space, thus presenting historical processes as natural "givens."
The Power of Images in Early Modern Science
Title | The Power of Images in Early Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Lefèvre |
Publisher | Birkhäuser |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3034880995 |
The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.